• @Cruxifux
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    109 months ago

    Wait, actually? What the hell is the reasoning behind that? How did Americans vote him back in after that?

    • @grue
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      129 months ago

      How did Americans Kentuckians vote him back in after that?

      Voter suppression and some interesting statistical anomalies between the official results and exit polling, favoring the Republicans (that Democrats didn’t have much interest in calling attention to, for fear of lending credence to Trump’s claims of the election being stolen).

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      59 months ago

      https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference

      Speaking on Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden said the Obama administration sought a united front to dispel concerns that going public with such accusations would be seen as an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the election.

      However, McConnell "wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment saying, essentially, ‘Russia’s doing this. Stop,’ " he said.

      At that point, Biden added, he felt that “the die had been cast” and that “this was all about the political play.”

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        49 months ago

        “Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more,” Biden added.

        One would hope.